| Amendment 1: |
Replaced by Amendment 4. |
| Amendment 2: |
Replaced by Amendment 4. |
| Amendment 3: |
Completely revised the FMP and frameworked
how harvest levels are specified. |
| Amendment 4: |
Completely revised the FMP and frameworked
how harvest levels are specified. |
| Amendment 5: |
Established a framework for specification and apportionment of harvest levels. |
| Amendment 6: |
Established a limited entry permit system
for the trawl and fixed gear sectors. |
| Amendment 7: |
Established a provision for Exempted Fishing Permits to allow experimental fisheries. |
| Amendment 8: |
Considered establishing a fixed gear sablefish
ITQ system (consideration suspended at draft stage due to a Congressional
moratorium on ITQs). |
| Amendment 9: |
Created a sablefish endorsement for limited
entry fixed gear vessels.
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| Amendment 10: |
Established provisions for the retention
and disposition of salmon caught incidentally in groundfish trawl fisheries. |
| Amendment 11: |
Incorporated provisions of the Sustainable
Fisheries Act into the FMP. Defined Essential Fish Habitat for West
Coast groundfish. Defined optimum yield. Defined overfishing
rates and thresholds. |
| Amendment 12: |
Frameworked rebuilding plan development and content. (Note: A court decision in August 2001 remanded portions of Amendment 12 to NMFS for changes. Amendments 16-1, 16-2, and 16-3 incorporate the necessary changes.)
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| Amendment 13: |
Incorporated Magnuson-Stevens Act provisions
for bycatch. |
| Amendment 14: |
Established a permit stacking system for the limited entry fixed gear sablefish fishery. |
| Amendment 15: |
Proposes to establish a limited entry program for the three non-tribal sectors of the Pacific Whiting fishery. |
| Amendment 16-1: |
Addressed National Standard 1 in the Magnuson-Stevens Act by establishing procedures for adopting and periodically reviewing rebuilding plans for overfished groundfish stocks. It also specifies what elements of rebuilding plans will be incorporated into the FMP and federal groundfish regulations.
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| Amendment 16-2: |
Implements legally-compliant rebuilding plans, consistent with the framework established in Amendment 16-1, setting strategic
rebuilding parameters to guide stock rebuilding for canary rockfish), darkblotched rockfish, lingcod, and Pacific ocean perch.
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Amendment 16-3:
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Implements legally-compliant rebuilding plans, consistent with the
framework established in Amendment 16-1, setting strategic
rebuilding parameters to guide stock rebuilding for bocaccio, cowcod, widow rockfish, and yelloweye rockfish.
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Amendment 16-4:
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Re-evaluates and revises adopted rebuilding plans for seven depleted (overfished) groundfish species (bocaccio, canary rockfish, cowcod, darkblotched rockfish, Pacific ocean perch, widow rockfish, and yelloweye rockfish) so that the rebuilding periods are as short as possible, taking into account the status and biology of the depleted species, the socioeconomic needs of West Coast fishing communities, and the interaction of the depleted specie within the marine ecosystem.
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Amendment 17:
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Created a framework for a multi-year management process.
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Amendment 18:
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Describes policy and program direction for bycatch monitoring and mitigation.
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Amendment 19:
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Essential fish habitat designation and minimization of adverse impacts environmental impact statement.
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Amendment 20: (proposed and in development)
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Trawl Rationalization and individual fishing quotas.
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Amendment 21: (proposed and in development)
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Intersector Allocation. Will describe formal allocations of groundfish species and species’ complexes for sectors of the groundfish fishery.
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Amendment 22: (proposed and in development)
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Open Access Fishery Limitation. Will consider a limited entry program for the directed fishery sector of the groundfish open access fishery (B permit program) and a registration program for the incidental fishery sector (C permit program).
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